Machine for dressing or paneling stone



l N. JENKINS. Machine for Dressing or Paneling Stone, Wood,

orother' M ltrial.

PatentedFeb. 1, 1 881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NICHOLAS JENKINs, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

MACHINEFOR DRESSING 0R PANELING STONE, WOOD, OR OTHER MATERIAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,284, dated. February 1, 1881.

Application filed January 11, 1879. V

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NICHoLAs J ENKINs, of the city and county of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements Relating to Machinery for Dressing or Paneling Stone, Wood, or other Analogous Material; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

This invention relates to an adjustable templet to facilitate richly ornameuting rectangular panels or forms.

The following is a description of what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

The accompanying drawings form part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved device reversed so as to show the under, side thereof. Fig. 2 represents a front or edge view of the same, partly in section, in position for work. Fig. 3 represents a sectional plan of part of one of the cornerpieces on a larger scale.

In each of the views similar letters of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.

N N N N are four corner-pieces, each rabbeted on its upper face to receive alongitudinal piece, I and a transverse piece, N These longitudinal and transverse parts N N and N N are slotted, as shown, and receive pinching-screws n tapped into these parts N. By adjusting these parts the device can be enlarged and contracted. It is represented in' or near its most contracted condition. The length of the slots indicates readily how much the dimensions may be extended. If it shall ever be desired to make the device longer or wider, or both, than will be allowed by these slotted pieces N N I can remove these and substitute others of greater length, to be kept conveniently by. Side pieces (not represented) may be introduced to apply on the inside of the frames N N to be held by suitable clamping means engaging in the slots or otherwise.

The inner faces'of the corner-pieces N may,

several parts.

"as indicated in Fig. 8. After this piece, thus prepared, is firmly glued, screwed, or both, to the continuous piece the bridges maybe cut out, and the corner-piece will then be complete.

This templet may be used for some purposes on stone or other material, making available as guides only the inner edges of the In such cases the shaft of the cutter-spindle may'be caused to traverse around the interior of the templet, and the cutter will execute corresponding lines and figures on the material to be cut, which is clamped below, as shown at N in Fig. 1. When it is desired to use, also, the decorative ornaments which are sunk half through the corner pieces N, I employ this templet in a reversed position under the wood or other material which is to be treated, as shown by Fig. 2, and provide a vertical pin in the center of the table, which is engaged in the ornamental groove and guides the piece as it is moved around, while a cutter mounted on a revolving shaft above, in line with the point, excavates a corresponding ornament in the piece of wood affixed on the top.

The wood or other material, N to be operated upon may be attached to the templet by means of clamps or dogs N ,or.by screw-spurs N', or both, or by other suitable devices.

I can make my improved templets of wood, and have so described them, although they can obviously be made of iron or'other suitable strong material.

I claim as my.invention- 1. The adjustable templets described, composed of the corner-pieces N N, adjustable In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 10 bars N N and confining means n combined my hand this 22d day of June, 1878, in the and adapted to serve as and for the purposes presence of two subscribing witnesses.

herein specified.

2. The templets N, grooved partially through, as shown, in combination with provisions for thin g the sameupon the material to be treated, and with guiding and cutting means, as herein specified.

NICHOLAS JENKINS.

Witnesses:

W. COLBORNE BROOKES, (Bus. 0. STETsoN. 

